Throughout elementary school and middle school I was a very good student. Then when I got to high school my grades started slipping and for most of ninth and tenth grade I cared about everything besides my school work. Even when I was a good student though, I never liked and was never good at anything science related.Then in my eleventh grade Biology class I had a teacher named Mrs. Bose. By eleventh grade I was starting to pull my grades up on my own, with the threat of applying to college soon hanging over my head. However, Mrs. Bose made me change my thinking about science, and that is why she became my inspiration for teaching.
I think science can be a very difficult subject to learn because the text is hard to read, and there is a lot of vocabulary you have to understand before you can even think about understanding a process or concept. Mrs. Bose taught science in a way I had never experienced before. She gave short lectures from the book and gave out copies of her notes so you could follow along and not be so busy trying to write every vocab word down that you lost track of what the actual lecture was about. After lecturing Mrs. Bose followed up almost every class with a short lab or activity that made us use what we had just learned. For the first time I was not only doing well in science but enjoying it as well.
I ended up taking an optional anatomy class with Mrs. Bose my senior year. Again, I enjoyed the class and succeed in it as well. I always planned on applying to college for education but before having this teacher I planned on English being my second major. I ended up picking science because of Mrs. Bose. She took a student who hated and barely got by in science and not only taught them to like it but to excel in it as well.
Since coming to URI, I have fell even more in love with science. In fact, I think that when I eventually get my masters it will be in some science field (maybe genetics) and not education. You may be thinking that the point of this writing assignment was to write about our teaching inspirations, not our science inspirations, but for me they go hand in hand. Throughout my years here at URI I have seen so many students, especially in low income areas, that think science and math fields are out of their reach. These students remind me of myself and I want to teach them what Mrs. Bose taught me, not to love science, but to have confidence in themselves. I have no delusions about making my students fall in love with science like I did but I do want to teach students that they can do anything they set their minds to, and I want to approach learning like my teaching inspiration did, with the idea that no two students learn alike, but that all can learn.
4/5 - Kerry, you did a nice job describing your high school teacher, Mrs. Bose. I think that you could combine the first two paragraphs to create an introduction that does a nice job of setting the stage and stating the subject of your essay. Please revise!
I think science can be a very difficult subject to learn because the text is hard to read, and there is a lot of vocabulary you have to understand before you can even think about understanding a process or concept. Mrs. Bose taught science in a way I had never experienced before. She gave short lectures from the book and gave out copies of her notes so you could follow along and not be so busy trying to write every vocab word down that you lost track of what the actual lecture was about. After lecturing Mrs. Bose followed up almost every class with a short lab or activity that made us use what we had just learned. For the first time I was not only doing well in science but enjoying it as well.
I ended up taking an optional anatomy class with Mrs. Bose my senior year. Again, I enjoyed the class and succeed in it as well. I always planned on applying to college for education but before having this teacher I planned on English being my second major. I ended up picking science because of Mrs. Bose. She took a student who hated and barely got by in science and not only taught them to like it but to excel in it as well.
Since coming to URI, I have fell even more in love with science. In fact, I think that when I eventually get my masters it will be in some science field (maybe genetics) and not education. You may be thinking that the point of this writing assignment was to write about our teaching inspirations, not our science inspirations, but for me they go hand in hand. Throughout my years here at URI I have seen so many students, especially in low income areas, that think science and math fields are out of their reach. These students remind me of myself and I want to teach them what Mrs. Bose taught me, not to love science, but to have confidence in themselves. I have no delusions about making my students fall in love with science like I did but I do want to teach students that they can do anything they set their minds to, and I want to approach learning like my teaching inspiration did, with the idea that no two students learn alike, but that all can learn.
4/5 - Kerry, you did a nice job describing your high school teacher, Mrs. Bose. I think that you could combine the first two paragraphs to create an introduction that does a nice job of setting the stage and stating the subject of your essay. Please revise!